This project was nothing short of brilliant! When the guys at Voodoo Controllers got in touch and outlined the project, I was very, very excited! Being a new company they needed a new brand, character design, site design, packaging design, 3D prototyping and banner ads...the whole shebang! I knew immediately that this was going to be ace. Everything seemed to flow really naturally too, the brand and character came together really quickly and then the rest of the elements just slotted into place. It was great to work on an e-commerce site that was a little edgy and needed to have more punch than your run of the mill online store. You can take a look at the rest of the work in the other sections of the site. So if you’re in need of a kick ass modded controller, give these guys a shout, they’ve got everything covered!

Stone Skipper was my first full iPhone project, including the in game art, branding, interface design and web site design, awesome! The brief was to create two characters, a young mischievous boy and his cheeky sidekick dog. The pair are always getting into trouble and in this outing they are out stone skipping! To go along with this they needed a world within which to live, so there are LOADS of levels set in different places around the globe. The whole project was a joy to work on and I loved every minute! If you fancy a quick pick up and play game, give it a try, its great!

This was a great little illustration job! Cocos 2D is a kick ass framework for creating 2D iPhone games, one that Chris (the development half of our new independent games company, more info on that coming soon :) discovered in the early stages of creating our first iPhone game (to be released before the end of this year). Ricardo, the creator of this framework allows anyone to use it for free, even commercially, essentially giving his hard work away for free. Both Chris and myself thought it would be great to offer him something in return (as his framework/engine has helped us so much) a new re-brand, giving him something fresh, memorable and professional. The brand already had an existing coconut as its symbol, so I took this on and created a new, much more characterful version, and one that would tie in with the premise of the 2D engine. Ric and his community of games developers gave it a very warm welcome and now use it as their official brand. Great fun.

This is the ‘green with envy’ Stats Envy monster for a new gaming stats site due out later this year. It was a really fun little brief to create an angry, envious little green monster, just the kind of project I like :) I really do love illustration!

This was a great opportunity that arose late 2008, where I was approached by the publishers of this new creative inspiration book series, the Creative Unity, to appear in their first volume as none other than their featured designer! If that wasn’t enough to bowl me over, I was then told that I had the first 6 pages of the book! I was rather took aback by this, but promptly bit their hand of and got busy preparing some work. As it’s what I love most, I decided to focus only on illustration and photography, and put together a huge collage of my characters for the first page (which you can see in detail on the illustration page on this site). It was a real honour to be asked to appear in a such a way and I wish the guys at the Creative Unity a lot of luck for 2009! Thanks guys!

These two cheeky monsters were originally a couple of un-used concepts from an old project that fell into the pile of old sketches. So when I got approached to be the featured artists in a new art book due out later this year (watch this space) I thought it was the perfect time to bring them to life as part of my feature. I’m really pleased with the outcome, they were a comical little pair of monsters!

Well this was a break from the norm. When I was approached by the owner of Miss Clito, an adult toy discussion and shop site, I was taken aback by the request to create a cutesy duck in bondage gear and a gimp mask! As the site isn’t dodgy and is a pretty straight down the line shopping site for adults, I figured ‘what the hell, it’d be fun!’ so off I set creating a cute duck all clad in PVC. Awesome. You’ll notice that there isn’t a link for the site below, that’s just in case any younger folk are checking this out, so to all you web savvy folk out there, I am sure that Google and the name above will help you find the site should you want to take a look ;)

These were a fun little bunch of characters to do! I haven’t been doing much in the way of illustration recently due to a huge influx of more design orientated jobs, I’m not complaining mind, but it’s nice to bring out the sketchpad again and create some funky miners! These were for the guys and gals over at Orekol, a company dedicated to mining safety signage, so these guys will be appearing all over the place apparently, even on the side of a nice big HUMMER!!! Can’t wait to see that!

Mooooooo. This little job was such fun! Simple brief, create a handful of cute and friendly farm animals. Awesome, I love jobs like this ;) I wanted to keep within my usual style but also wanted to start exploring some new shapes, so as you can see, the basic outline shape is the same on both the cow and pig…a great way of creating a new ‘family’ style. I want to make more silly animals.

These are the original concept illustrations for my Hard Boiled Baddies that I created last year. I was looking through some old files and found these, so I just thought I’d add them as they are a good indication of how the idea progressed. If you have no idea what I am talking about, take a trip over to the 3D section to find out more.

This was a fab little branding job! I was asked to create a cheeky devil character for a new site due to be launched this year. The brief was to keep him devilish, cheeky and fun, with a little edge too. It was nice to have a play with a character that has a ‘dark’ background, as most of my characters are usually happy, smiling little bundles of fun, this dude has a daaaaark side…oooooohhhhhh.

I have a few illustration jobs brewing right now, but as they are all either in production, or not yet live, I thought I’d try some more personal stuff...Say hello to Hunter Bob, why a hunter? Why Bob? Who knows, just some random thought that came to mind about some deer hunting 70’s influenced character...so I decided to make him. Yet a little more exploration going on here, thought I’d fall back on old faithful, clean lines and nice strokes, only this time with a sepia palette, texture and drop of the seventies.

This was a personal project to explore a new range of characters that had been wandering around my mind for way to long. Also it had been a while since I last put pencil to paper, so I grabbed my pad and started scratching!

Yey, a little more character development. I have some great new work starting soon, so I wanted to take some time to play around with some style development. Don't ask where the idea came from, I was just sat down watching some TV with my sketch pad playing with some lines...and boom, he appeared. Kinda Batman inspired I guess with a mix of other superheroes. I really like the clean line, Tartakovsky style simplicity of this character, I must keep exploring!!

It’s been a good month since I last posted some new ‘commercial’ work as everything is in production right now, so to keep the site updated and keep my regulars entertained, I’ve been playing in my sketch pad on pretty much daily basis...and here’s the latest incarnation...the Rabid Rabbit. I recently bought Michael Gagne’s (www.gagneint.com) awesome art book ‘Insanely Twisted Rabbits’ and fell totally in love with whole idea of him and his mate trying to out-do each other with who could create the most twisted bunny...so I figured, what the hell, I’ll take a pop too...and here he is...looks pretty twisted to me.

It was a boring Sunday afternoon...it was thundering (I love thunder), raining, and generally, one of those ‘don’t know what to do Sundays’...so I drew a Puffer fish???? I don’t know why, I just started sketching and he appeared out the end of my pencil.

Woooooo, big pink monsters! This dude was born during a long management meeting at on old job...dull meeting spawned a new fun character, awesome :)

Don’t ask, I have no idea. He hee, well, I just got a little caught up in some good issues of ImagineFX, one too many fantasy movies and a couple of great new books, needless to say I thought I’d throw a mix of traditional painting with my usual cartoony style...and got this. I really love fantasy art and love to have a go now and again. It’s been many years since I had a go, so please feel free to mail me to tell me what you think, good or bad, I’m open to criticism :)

Its official, I'm back to my spending every spare waking moment drawing again, its been ages since I've been glued to my sketch pad. I recently bought some of the awesome Revoltech robots, from Patlabor and Macross, which got me all excited and made me want to re-explore my old Combat Droid (see bottom of this section). I reeeeeeally wanna create this bad boy in Max...just need the damn time!

After creating that scruffy looking combat droid below I was inspired. New style, new burst of enthusiasm, so hold on tight, there's gonna be looooooads more of this style coming soon. I LOVE DRAWING, its great to be back doing what I love best...and best of all, its all for meeee. No client brief, no restrictions, just unadulterated freedom. Wonderful!

This character was created as a bit of an experiment. I had taken a great amount of inspiration from the great Genndy Tartakovsky and wanted to create a new character in his style. I went on to create many more characters over time utilising many of the techniques gained during this exercise. Simplicity and clean lines.

One of my favourite parts of the Sonica package, the castle...oooooooh spooky! This formed a large part of the story and was used as the end of level challenge!

My first true love (project speaking of course ;) Sonica Spanish. This was a gigantic project. Initially I was tasked with creating a Spanish Family for a new e-learning package. Over the next 12 months I was challenged with creating the world and characters to sit within 250 flash games!!! The project included soooo much it was unreal, life size cut-outs, display stands, promotional items, you name it. This has been my most valued project in my history of design and illustration.

These are just a few of the characters created for the Discover alive project. There were 100's of activities for many different subjects. These characters helped the kids stay entertained throughout ;) Awesome fun!

Grumpy old dinner lady created for the Discover alive project. There were 100's of activities for many different subjects. These characters helped the kids stay entertained throughout ;) Awesome fun!

These were great fun, based on the loose concept of lego people. These were created for the Discover alive project. There were 100's of activities for many different subjects. These characters helped the kids stay entertained throughout ;) Awesome fun!

This was a sample for a potential 'other language' version of Sonica. This was for the proposed Sonica Mandarin. The brief was to keep the Sonica style that I created for the Spanish package but introduce an oriental/manga influence. I really liked these ones.

As I had been illustrating for about 3-4 years for 3T productions they asked me to create a 4ft long print containing as many characters as I could find that I had created during this time. This piece still hangs in the entrance hall to the second floor.

This was one of my favorite projects from a while ago. This was another e-learning game to help teach kids about the period of the Tudors. This was a short flash game based around a handful of characters created around pieces of armour in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

This guy spearheaded my old brand and hosted my old site, I thought it time to renew him and give him a face lift for 2007, check out the 3D section to see the old one.

Take it or leave it, Fantasy art is a love or a hate thing...and being completely devoid of taste...I LOVE THE STUFF :) Dragons, monsters, barbarians you name it, it all rocks. So I've tried my hand at it a few times and this was the first reasonable success. I still like this one to this day.

Combat Droid. Yeah its cheesy I know :) I sketched out this bad boy in a meeting one day and decided that he was to be my first '100% digitally painted' piece of art. Not a bad start.